The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST

key West has one hundred and
.hirty-one cigar factories, each en-
ploying from ten to three hundred
hands.
The story comes from Paris that a
sausage-maker there displays placard
in his window announcing: Every
link carefully inoculated by M. Pas
teur.'
Ordinary everyday English speech
employs only about twelve hundred
words, according to stenographer
who has made a careful examination OF
the matter.-N. Y. Times.
Pale young celery and eucalyptus
are the names of two new tints of
green. The former is almost like the
pretty linden green; the latter Is q very
soft sea green.-C Chicago Mat.
The Washington monument
writes a Potomac penciler in the Troy
On. W Times, sis great disappoint-
ment to visitors. While the structure
is i'll reality 555 feet high, it does not
appear, in the eyes of the average
mortal, to be over 250.
There is one fishing town on the
Maine coast where, if You should shout
out Captain" on the public street, ten
out of every dozen men within reach OF
your voice would turn to YOU and ask:
.'Well, what yer want?' They are
captains of fishing yessels.-Bostoa
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The language of sealing-wax
promises 20 supplant that of flowers.
Red wax must be used for business
only, black wax for mourning and blue
to signify love, Five tints of blue are
made. to express all the grada:ions of
passion. Pink wax is for congratula
tons. and white, - for wedding and ball
invitations. Chtcago Times
One of the largest trees ever put
into the water by Il sSkagit logging
camp was one that was at jackson 5, Il
few miles above Mt. Vernon. The tree
contained three NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. logs
which scaled as follows: Butt, 7,5l2
feet; second, 5,732; top, 5,Sz6-a total
The diameter at the small ends was rs,
IL and GA inches, respectively. 70 Chi
coQo Enterprise.
The Queens birthday present TO
the Crown Princess OF Germany WAS a
.sfull-dress' carriage. and it has been
dispatched to Berlin. The interior is
lined with blue silk damask, with gold
fringe and tassnl The outside is of
claret co. T. -. IN, of crimson, and
all the mot: are of brass. On the
doors and =" 70 Fr~,isl and Prus-
II arms $50 ,-:ublazo..s-,! II. relief
s.a,5on Ir,s,A-
1t Is ~ot.sc me since we saw n bet
ter condensed piece of reporting than
the following paragraph from medi-
cal paper: ..In the Solferino mine.
Nevadaville, Col, a loose rock knocked
A. Warren out of the bucket. A piece
jawbone was found at the twelve
hundred-foot level and q piece of skull
and his coat at the thirteen hundred
foot level. These comprised the recov-
cradle effects. N. Y. Halt. cnoe1at.
The population of London now ex-
| ceeds every other city, ancient or mod
ern, in the world. New York and all
its adjacent cities combined are not
equal to two-thirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland. and the Australian colo
MES each contains fewer souls, while
Norway, Servia, Greece and Denmark
have scarcely half as many. Yet at
the beginning of .the present century
the population of all London did not
reach one million.
The electric bell system has been
developed to such a fine point in New
York hotels that by moving q pointer
upon dial and then pressing the bell
the guest can indicate to the office mis-
desire for his bill, coupe, a carriage,
writing materials, chambcrmaid, mes
senger, boots, water, porter, fireman
ice-water or hall-boy. At one hotel
the dial is divided into three sections
one for eatables, one for drinkables
and a third for ordinary hotel service